Please drop those feelings of guilt along with the surplus weight. Especially now that you know the explanation. Congratulations on your wonderful results, and welcome to the forum. I hope you'll keep postingI mainly felt guilty.
Thank you for the kind mention, but I’m not sure I had anything to do with anything here?
Glad to hear you’re on the path to good health anyway, though. Hip hip hooray!
I look so much forward to the day when people realise that the old low fat propaganda was nothing but exactly that - a big fat lie. When strangers will stop glancing at the contents of my shopping basket and think to themselves that it's no wonder I'm fat, because I still am, in spite of having lost 19 kgs.Thank you Briped, oh yes, the guilt has well and truly gone, as has a brief bit of feeling ashamed and a reluctance to tell people.
I do need to stay here for the top up, common sense injection that this forum provides. I am very aware of how early this is in my journey and just because I am all Tiggerish right now doesn't mean I wont fall down the very first trap.
I felt so ill for so long and feel so good right now I just want to tell everybody about it.
@Jim Lahey Don't underestimate yourself!Thank you for the kind mention, but I’m not sure I had anything to do with anything here?
Glad to hear you’re on the path to good health anyway, though. Hip hip hooray!
Ah but you did.
It was your thread looking at why people test that stopped me from slowly but steadily reintroducing carbs simply because I could and made me ask myself why I would want to do that.
Answer, I don't.
It is now obvious to me that that would not have suited me at all and I know what the consequences would have been. Your posts are hugely informative and raise interesting points for thought and I have valued them greatly. Losing weight is the easy part, learning how to be well is much more complicated and it is here in this forum that the pieces started to fall into place.
I have much still to learn and am quite looking forward to.
Thanks again.
Thank you for the kind mention, but I’m not sure I had anything to do with anything here?
Glad to hear you’re on the path to good health anyway, though. Hip hip hooray!
youre a star @Jim Lahey ...Thank you for the kind mention, but I’m not sure I had anything to do with anything here?
Glad to hear you’re on the path to good health anyway, though. Hip hip hooray!
I feel better than I have felt in many years,
I have clearly been experiencing hyperinsulemia for a very long time
and that had compensated sufficiently well to keep my blood sugars down until recently.
It does make me wonder about the heart attack now though, I blamed myself for that too as
I was overweight, perhaps I know why now. .."
A really great post - that's exactly my experience on low carb/keto. I was so addicted to carbs it is almost miraculous that I can look at them now and just think ' yuk - I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole'. It really does help that I was in a really bad place with retinopathy and a very numb foot and there is absolutely no way I want to go back there.The low carb diet is a personal revelation.
It seemed extremely unlikely that all of the claims being made about it could be true, I mean, not hungry? Not having to count or worry about calories? Better energy levels? Etc. I allowed for some license in the reports but could see why it would be really good for my blood sugar and so worth a try as a maintenance diet..
Everything people said was true, and more.
I have a friend who gets a migraine if she drinks alcohol. It developed in her 20's and before that used to enjoy a drink but gave up and soon as she worked out the link. If someone offers her a drink she declines and, less so now than previously she would be questioned to find out why she didn't drink and then when she explained would get a 'poor you' sort of reply, lots of sympathy as she is clearly losing out, couldn't she just manage a small whatever? She finds that attitude hilarious, from her point of view all she is missing out on is the migraine and that is unremittingly good, she never looks longingly at bottles of wine because it wouldn't make any sense. Substitute carbs for alcohol and any diabetic complication you like for migraine and it sounds an awful lot like me.
I think my brain, the subconscious bit that normally fancies a sandwich, actually grocks this now. I would be prepared to put up with a bit of craving but I am not experiencing any.
The true cost of the high carb, low fat dietry lies must be astronomical in lives ruined and lost as well as financial.
Thanks for all your kind replies, I feel supportedand understood. I offer the same to all in return.
I think my brain, the subconscious bit that normally fancies a sandwich, actually grocks this now. I would be prepared to put up with a bit of craving but I am not experiencing any.
The true cost of the high carb, low fat dietry lies must be astronomical in lives ruined and lost as well as financial.
Thanks for all your kind replies, I feel supportedand understood. I offer the same to all in return.
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